R&D in
Microengineering • Christophe
Yamahata was born in Paris, France, in
1977. He obtained his degree in
Microengineering
from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Lausanne (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne, EPFL) in 2000. He joined the
Microsystems Laboratory (LMIS, EPFL) in 2001 as
a
Research Assistant where he completed a Ph.D.
thesis on the topic of "Magnetically Actuated
Micropumps" in 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he
pursued research at the University
of
Tokyo, as a postdoctoral fellow of the Swiss
National Science Foundation (2005) and
later
as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow
(2006-2008).
From 2008 to 2012, he was a Research Associate
at EPFL.
He was also a co-founder of VeoSwiss Technologies
Sàrl (May 2013 - November 2014).